| Darious' Story |
| The Boreas Herd was a nomad herd traveling with the season's. Winters would find them in the warmer valleys, and the summers in the cooler highlands. They lived in peace for the most part of time but battles were never shunned when they came about. They were a herd of integrity. This was the herd where Darious grew up. Even as a youngster Darious was always more presumptuous then the rest of the young males. He would boldly challenge males much older and bigger then himself, often as a results of getting beatings and ridicules from the victors, but this never once stopped him from challenging any one. Because of this he grew up tough and quick on his feet. In his early adult life, Darious became known as the Centaur Warrior. Whether the battles were with dangerous creatures such as griffins out to find meals or other centaurs trying to steal the females, he was the first to defend the herd. Boreas, the herd leader, favored Darious because of this and made it know to all that he would be the next leader of this herd one day. All the females all faught for Darious' attention and he learned quickly that this got him any female he wanted at any time. All except one defient youngster. Her name was Brina, known as the scrapper of the females. When all the others were happy to show their feminine nature, Brina was set on doing battle with the young males of the herd, This often urked Darious to the point where he would avoid her all together whether in mock battles or to talk, Being annoyed with her he would walk away without a word. One day Darious along with the other young males were sent out to do battle with another herd over their land. It was Daious's first crusade and he was truely excited and pleased to go. It was on the return of theis crusade that they came upon the dead bodies of the males. In their inspection of this massacre, they noticed not one female was to be found dead or alive. Quietly one scared youngster, a female child, came out from behind a huge boulder. She came to the men and told them of the attack of humans that killed the males and stole the females. Crying she spoke of how she was playing and when she heard the cries she hid behind the boulder watching as the males were all killed and the females bounded with thick ropes and forced to go with the humans. She went on to tell of how she watched as her mother was taken away, but she knew it was best that she stayed hidden. The males decided to go out in search of these humans to kill them and get their females back. They traveled for days but was unable to find even a trace of the humans or thier females. Eventually they seperated and went their own ways. Darious just couldn't except the fact that his herd was broken up and not one of the females was to be found anywhere and so he set out on his own crusade to find the lost females. Traveling for the next couple of years he often came upon some very dangerous creatures. Luckily with his training he was always able to battlet them off and find refuge to heal wounds that were inflicted upon him from these fights. One such fight was with a werecat that looked at him as a meal. Being in a particularly spiteful mood, Darious was more then happy to do battle with this creature. With his own bare hands he strangled the life out of the ill fated creature, walking away with only flesh wounds on his equine body. Finally as he stood looking about this new land known as Karma, he wondered what was in store for him next. Then out of nowhere a unicorn appeared to him telling him of a female with the colors of him and then took him to this her. Happy to see someone from his herd he rushed to her. Seeing it was the young girl that once gave him so much trouble, Darious smiled to himself. He didn't even mind the fact that it was Brina. Finally he had found someone with his herd's heritage to begin a new herd of this bloodline. Now he could look to the future with true happiness. |
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